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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Another new @rbgkew.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social PhD, fully-funded: Just acquisitions? Law and ethics over time in Kew’s overseas plant collecting history. Closes 8 May www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Spectacular day at the incredible Kirstenbosh Botanical Garden in Cape Town

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Amazing job at the @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social : Research Fellow in Biocultural Heritage researching @ox.ac.uk collections using heritage science. So many possibilities... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Umbrella from Myanmar: https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-225304

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

For UK undergraduates: Sandwich ('industrial placement') Intern: Enhancing Kew's collections. Spend a year curating, enhancing and sharing our ethnobotanical collections. Closes 11 May 2025 (+ similar posts in other teams) careers.kew.org/vacancy/unde...

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Remembering Mark Whittow, historian extraordinaire, who died on Christmas Eve 2017, seen next to his beloved red Land Rover on our drive London-Istanbul in 1991. The Romanian passes were snowy but we made it through on a truly memorable journey. Memories: rememberingmarkwhittow.history.ox.ac.uk

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A brief side excursion to the Arts & Crafts Gamble House

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Extensive succulent and palm gardens

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The vast Chinese garden, with ethnobotanical displays

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The newly installed but 300-year old Shoya House illustrating traditional agriculture in Japan

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The historic and beautiful Japanese garden. I lingered here a long time.

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I had a few days to explore the extraordinary holdings of the library and galleries

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Many thanks to the incredible Huntington Library & Gardens in Pasadena for the invitation to speak at the Storm Cloud conference celebrating this great exhibition on climate change & art in the 19th century: huntington.org/event/storm-...

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Wednesday, November 27 - 2024 10:00to 11:30 EST online Caroline Cornish (Kew): Hidden hands and the development of economic botany: the role of captive or coerced labour in the Economic Botany Collection. Book well ahead via: www.chstm.org/content/hidd... [& more talks in the same series]

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Monday 25th November - 18.30 – 20.00, online only British Society for the History of Pharmacy The making of a quinologist: cinchona and quinine science in the work of John Eliot Howard (1807-1883) by Kim Walker (Kew) Book via email to events@bshp.org

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Lots going on in the world of #planthumanities this autumn... here are some events in London or online that have crossed my inbox: 21 November 2024 – 19.00. In person, South London Botanical Institute. Dye plants: Vivi Mellegård (Kew) & Zoë Burt (artist). Book ahead: www.slbi.org.uk/events/

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